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Congratulations to Douglas Jerolmack, Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, on being…

Professor Hermann Pfefferkorn and Professor Wang Jun made a discovery in 2003 that expanded our knowledge of Earth and its processes!

Penn Professor of Earth and Environmental Science Hermann Pfefferkorn and Chinese Academy of Sciences Professor of Geology…

PhD student Chris Thom receives an Outstanding Student Paper award at AGU

Cognratulations to PhD student Chris Thom for receiving an Outstanding Student Paper award at AGU for his work on "Nanoscale…

East Antarctic Ice Sheet Has Stayed Frozen for 14 Million Years, Penn Team Reports

In a new study in Scientific Reports, University of Pennsylvania researchers use an innovative technique to date one of…

Tiny phytoplankton have big influence on climate change

As nations across the globe negotiate how to reduce their contributions to climate change, researchers at Penn are…

PhD student Erynn Johnson receives honorable mention from Geological Society of America

PhD student Erynn Johnson receives recognition from the Geological Society of America for her work, 'Can we learn anything…

PhD student Emma Harrison explores how wormholes may limit landslides

Scientific investigations sometimes take unexpected twists and turns. When Emma Harrison, a graduate student at the…

Professor Doug Jerolmack and colleagues report the first-ever method to quantitatively estimate the transport distance of river pebbles from their shape alone

While new evidence suggests that Mars may harbor a tiny amount of liquid water, it exists today as a largely cold and arid…

Professor Hermann Pfefferkorn awarded honorary doctorate

Hermann Pfefferkorn was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Ricardo Palma in Lima for his outstanding work in…

Lightning Reshapes Rocks at the Atomic Level, EES Study Finds

Using extremely high-resolution microscopy, Reto Gieré, professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental…